Kye Wilson

Kye Wilson is an award-winning visual artist using moving image to create video art and installations that incorporate multidisciplinary, site-specific, and live artwork. His work has been performed, exhibited and screened nationally and internationally, including Kartong International Cultural Festival, The Gambia; APT Gallery, London; Portsmouth Historic Dockyard; Winchester Cathedral; Osek Monastery/Galerie ITC, Czechia; and Circulo de Belles Artes, Museum of Fine Arts, Madrid.
Embedded in his practice is the fusion of live and mediated experiences that explore the human condition and the liminal space between the ‘real’ and ‘virtual’. By interweaving live audience engagement with emergent technologies his artworks challenge preconceived notions of body and space and live versus mediated experience.

Wilson obtained an MA in Fine Art with distinction from University of Portsmouth in 2011. He has previously received the award for Best Video Artwork at MADATAC, Madrid Festival of Contemporary Audio-Visual Arts in Spain; Best Film at the Undercover Surrealism exhibition at Hayward Gallery, London; and given a decoration from the jury prize at the Festival of Video Art "KinoLevchyk" in Lviv, Ukraine.

Notable commissions include the Journeys Festival International to create I AM OTHER, Reckoning with Refugeedom; Faces, awarded by Portsmouth Festivities and commissioned by Guildford Remembers, Guildford Borough Council, and Monocular View, commissioned by Space Interrupted. Wilson is also a regular recipient of Arts Council England funding, most recently for his projects Embodied Vistas, Angel:legnA and Empathy Machine.

Wilson’s practice is primarily research-based, using innovative filmmaking techniques to allow audiences to bring their own sense of self and experiences to the artworks, collapsing the dichotomy of creator/spectator in the production of meaning. His recent work is inspired by Slow Cinema. This allows him to transform his research into long, contemplative takes that are exacerbated by the installation format to completely immerse viewers and allow him to explore the embodiment of people and places.

We become the camera lens and thus, Wilson allows us into the dream.
- Charlotte Bradley, writer.

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